A man is hospitalized after he was slashed and stabbed when he tried to intervene in a domestic violence incident, Oconee County deputies said.

Deputies said they were called to a home on Knox Landing Road in Seneca just before 9 a.m. Monday. Deputies found a man who had been slashed multiple times in his throat and head and who had several stab wounds on his body. The man was taken to the hospital and then airlifted to Greenville Memorial Hospital.

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Deputies said before they got to the house, they had been told that Jonathan William Duncan, 36, of Highlands Highway in Walhalla, was the suspect in the domestic violence and in the stabbing.

Deputies said prior to the stabbing, Duncan had attacked his wife. Arrest warrants say he threw her into a wall and choked her twice. Deputies said the man was stabbed when he tried to intervene.

Deputies said they were tipped off that Duncan was in the house next door. They found him there and took him into custody. They said Duncan was taken to Oconee Memorial Hospital for treatment of a condition unrelated to the incident.

Duncan will be booked into the Oconee County Detention Center when he is released from the hospital. He is charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and second-degree domestic violence.